Portrait of Tim Roth

Tim Roth

Acting

Biography

Timothy Simon Roth (born May 14, 1961) is an English actor and director. He was among the prominent British actors known as the "Brit Pack". For his performance in Rob Roy (1995), Roth won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.  After garnering attention in television productions Made in Britain (1982) and Meantime (1983), Roth was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer in his theatrical film debut The Hit (1984). He gained further recognition for his roles in films, including The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Vincent & Theo and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990). Roth has collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on several films, including Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Four Rooms (1995) and The Hateful Eight (2015). Other film credits include The Legend of 1900 (1998), Planet of the Apes (2001), Funny Games (2007), Selma (2014), Luce (2019), and Bergman Island (2021). Roth made his directorial debut with~ The War Zone (1999). He played Cal Lightman in the Fox series Lie to Me (2009–2011), Jim Worth / Jack Devlin in the Sky Atlantic series Tin Star (2017–2020), and Emil Blonsky / Abomination in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films The Incredible Hulk (2008), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), and the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022).

Born: May 14, 1961

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Filmography

2025
260 days

as Marijan

2025
Tornado

as Sugarman

2024
Poison

as Lucas

2024
Classified

as Kevin Angler

2023
Last King of the Cross

as Ezra Shipman

2022
Punch

as Stan

2022
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

as Emil Blonsky / Abomination

2022
Resurrection

as David

2022
There Are No Saints

as Carl Abrahams

2022
Sundown

as Neil Bennett

2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

as Emil Blonsky / Abomination (voice) (uncredited)

2021
2021
The Misfits

as Schultz

2020
A Fall from Grace

as Detective Michael Tabb

2019
The Song of Names

as Martin Simmonds

2019
Luce

as Peter Edgar

2018
The Padre

as Padre

2018
The Con Is On

as Peter Fox

2017
Tin Star

as Jim Worth / Jack Devlin

2017
1 Mile To You

as Jarhead

2016
Rillington Place

as John Christie

2016
Reg

as Reg Keys

2016
Mr. Right

as Hopper / Reynolds

2015
The Hateful Eight

as Oswaldo Mobray

2015
600 Miles

as Hank Harris

2015
Chronic

as David

2015
Hardcore Henry

as Henry's Father

2014
Selma

as Gov. George Wallace

2014
2014
United Passions

as Sepp Blatter

2014
Grace of Monaco

as Prince Rainier III

2014
Finding Vivian Maier

as Himself - Actor

2014
Klondike

as The Count

2013
A Fuller Life

as Self - Reader (segment "D-Day - an Invitation to Hell")

2013
Möbius

as Ivan Rostovsky

2012
2012
Arbitrage

as Det. Michael Bryer

2012
Broken

as Archie

2012
2010
Pete Smalls Is Dead

as Pete Smalls

2009
Sea Wolf

as Death Larsen

2009
Sea Wolf

as Death Larsen

2009
Skellig

as Skellig

2009
Lie to Me

as Cal Lightman

2008
The Incredible Hulk

as Emil Blonsky

2008
Funny Games

as George

2007
2007
Youth Without Youth

as Dominic Matei

2007
Even Money

as Victor

2006
2005
2005
Dark Water

as Jeff Platzer

2005
The Last Sign

as Jeremy Macfarlane

2004
Battle of the Brave

as William Pitt

2004
Silver City

as Mitch Paine

2004
2003
To Kill a King

as Oliver Cromwell

2003
2002
Pulp Fiction: The Facts

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Killing Emmett Young

as John Harrett / Frank Dwyer

2001
Invincible

as Herschel Steinschneider / Erik Jan Hanussen

2001
The Musketeer

as Febre the Man in Black

2001
2000
2000
Bread and Roses

as Party Guest (uncredited)

2000
Vatel

as Marquis de Lauzun

2000
The Million Dollar Hotel

as Izzy Goldkiss (uncredited)

2000
Made in Britain

as Himself

1998
The Legend of 1900

as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'

1997
Deceiver

as James Walter Wayland

1997
Hoodlum

as Dutch Schultz

1997
Gridlock'd

as Stretch

1997
1996
Everyone Says I Love You

as Charles Ferry

1995
Four Rooms

as Ted the Bellhop

1995
Rob Roy

as Archibald Cunningham

1994
Little Odessa

as Joshua Shapira

1994
Pulp Fiction

as Pumpkin

1994
Captives

as Philip Chaney

1994
Who Do You Think You're Fooling?

as Mr. Orange (archive footage)

1993
1993
Murder in the Heartland

as Charles Starkweather

1992
Reservoir Dogs

as Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke

1992
Backsliding

as Tom Whitton

1990
Vincent & Theo

as Vincent Van Gogh

1990
Yellowbacks

as Peter Pike

1990
Vincent & Theo

as Vincent Van Gogh

1990
Twin Peaks

as Gary "Hutch" Hutchens

1990
Farendj

as Anton

1989
1988
Coppers

as Graham

1988
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

as Franz Kafka / Josef K

1988
1988
A World Apart

as Harold

1988
The Play on One

as Peter Pike

1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

as Franz Kafka / Joseph K.

1987
Metamorphosis

as Gregor Samsa

1986
King of the Ghetto

as Matthew Long

1986
King of the Ghetto

as Matthew Long

1985
Urban Jungle

as Tristan Hanley

1985
Murder with Mirrors

as Edgar Lawson

1985
Screen Two

as Nick Finchley

1984
1984
The Hit

as Myron

1983
Meantime

as Colin

1983
1983
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

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Seven Snipers

as The Dragon

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Fish

as Fish Osborne